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How to block holiday dates on ShopifyNew

Shopify has no closed-days calendar. The password page, a short workaround, and how to keep Thanksgiving and Christmas off the date picker.

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How to limit orders per day on ShopifyNew

Stock is one number for every day. A daily limit is a number per date. The workaround, and what a real cap needs to do.

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Delivery dates for a florist on ShopifyNew

The date is the product. Required dates express checkout cannot bypass, same day cutoffs, and day caps for Valentine’s and Mother’s Day.

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Taking catering and event orders on ShopifyNew

A date you cannot move, a capacity per Saturday, and a balance that is not known yet. Which parts Shopify will never do.

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Which Shopify app for delivery dates and pickup?New

Eight questions that separate these apps in ten minutes, plus the three things none of them can do. We build one, and say so.

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Order ahead for a butcher, deli or farm shopNew

Collection days, cut to order notice, the counter queue and the Christmas book. Plus the weight problem no app solves.

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Lead times for a bakery on ShopifyNew

Shopify has no idea a cake takes three days and a loaf takes one. The four settings that replace the ones it does not have.

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Click and collect on ShopifyNew

Free and ten minutes to turn on. What it will not do is ask which day, hold a slot, or stop you overbooking a Saturday.

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Shopify local delivery: zones, fees and a delivery dateNew

What Shopify gives you free, why no app can read your delivery zones or your rates, and what to insist on before you add a date picker.

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How to let customers choose flavors on ShopifyNew

Four ways to let shoppers pick their own items, and why the variant limit everyone blames isn't the one blocking you. Three of the four are free.

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How to sell a build-your-own cookie box on ShopifyNew

Letting customers pick 12 cookies is the easy part. Per-flavour limits, how many boxes you can actually bake in a day, and local pickup, written for bakeries, not software companies.

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How to sell any 6 products for one fixed priceNew

“Any 6 for $30” is easy to advertise and awkward to build. What actually survives checkout, and what quietly breaks your inventory.

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Build your own 12-pack on Shopify: a brewery’s guideNew

The picker takes an afternoon. Whether you’re allowed to ship the box is the real project.

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Let customers choose the quantity of each flavorNew

Three glazed, two chocolate, one jelly, not “pick six different things.” They are not the same feature, and most apps only do the second.

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Which Shopify app lets customers pick their own items?New

An honest comparison, written by someone who sells one of them, including what we could not verify.

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